Mini Pumpkins On A Stick

How to grow pumpkin on a stick from seed.

Mini pumpkins on a stick. Either fresh or dried they add uniq. Pumpkin on a stick has been delighting gardeners for more than 125 years and goes by many names. The plant grows three to five feet tall. Observing the fruit most people guess it is a strange variety of pumpkin.

65 days from transplant. Sell by the stem or individually. That s why it s often called pumpkin on a stick or a pumpkin tree. If you had not seen the name at the top of the page could you guess what it is.

Those thorns are one of the giveaways that it s an eggplant by the way others call it mock tomato because it really does. The fruit ripens to a deep reddish orange. Closely examine the fruit. These bright colored pumpkin sticks are then used as.

Also common to asia and south america in north america this nightshade eggplant is more often used as an ornamental where people trim the branches sticks strip the leaves and allow the fruit to dry on the stem. Pumpkin on a stick also called pumpkin tree and pumpkin bush. You can direct sow the seeds in your garden 2 to 4 weeks after your last frost when the soil temperature reaches 70 f. For ornamental pumpkin sticks allow the fruit to dry on the stem.

Some call it pumpkin tree or pumpkin bush because of the sturdy long lasting branches set with large purple thorns. Pumpkin on a stick is easy to grow from seed as long as you keep in mind that this is a tropical plant and needs hot weather to germinate and grow. Then the 12 16 stems produce 6 8 pumpkin like fruits that ripen from green to red to burnt orange. It produces ribbed fruit a little smaller than a miniature jack b.